Police release video in shootout that killed three

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San Jose police have released a chilling surveillance video of the events that led up to a kidnap attempt and shootout at a bar that left three men dead.

The footage from three cameras shows one of the armed suspects — clad in a bulletproof vest — trying kidnap the bar’s owner and then shooting him, said San Jose police Sgt. Jason Dwyer. The owner survived.

Two of the three men killed were suspects, and the third opened fire on the assailants before they could carry out the plan, police say.

Police said the violence at the Mexicali Club on Oakland Road began about 8:30 p.m. Jan. 8 when Antonio Barraza Allon, 31, and Manuel Rodriguez Barraza, 29, both of Salinas, and a third man came into the bar looking for the owner, Humberto Velasquez Sanchez, 28, of San Lorenzo.

The three wanted to kidnap Sanchez over an alleged debt, police said.

But the three were confronted by a man inside the bar, Manuel Morales Mendosa, 26, who was armed with a gun, authorities said.

A shootout ensued, and Allon and Mendosa were killed. Sanchez was wounded. Barraza was also shot but managed to stumble two blocks to a Ford Explorer, where his body was found the next morning.

San Jose Police Department

Hector Milla

Police are seeking the third man who entered the bar. That man, shown in the video, remains unidentified.

Investigators have identified a fourth suspect who authorities believe drove the others to the scene. Hector Milla, 32, of Salinas is being sought on a no-bail warrant for murder.

Anyone who recognizes the assailant in the video is asked to call police at (408) 277-5283.